Week 4 of the Saturn 1 Community POAP Campaign looks ahead to the future of Saturn 1 and Rocket Pool’s continued evolution. This POAP recognizes community members who shared forward-looking perspectives, ideas, and feedback on what Saturn 1 enables next—highlighting long-term opportunities, future improvements, and the role of the community in shaping Rocket Pool’s path forward.

Week 3 of the Saturn 1 Community POAP Campaign focused on why Saturn 1 matters for Rocket Pool and the broader Ethereum ecosystem. This POAP recognizes community members who contributed thoughtful perspectives on decentralization, sustainability, and long-term protocol health by engaging with Saturn 1 content through discussion, analysis, original posts, and amplification across platforms.

Week 2 of the Saturn 1 Community POAP Campaign highlights how Saturn 1 improves the node operator experience and enhances capital efficiency across the Rocket Pool ecosystem. This POAP recognizes community members who helped surface and explain Saturn 1’s operator-focused improvements—such as greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency—through discussion, insights, technical contributions, and amplification of Saturn 1 content across platforms.

Issued to community members who made both a contribution and a donation during the Saturn 1 outreach campaign on the Rocket Pool Discord. This POAP signifies an elevated level of commitment to the initiative.

Week 1 of the Saturn 1 Community POAP Campaign celebrates the foundation of Saturn 1 and what it brings to Rocket Pool’s next chapter. This POAP recognizes community members who helped spread awareness by engaging with Saturn 1 content across platforms—whether through thoughtful discussion, explainers, original posts, or amplifying others’ work.

The Rocket Pool community celebrates the 2025 holidays, with node operators and community members sharing festive greetings and looking ahead to the upcoming Saturn 1 upgrade. Participants receive a POAP.

Around October 30, 2025, Beaconcha.in data provided by Hildobby, showed that the share of validators on the Ethereum beacon chain operated by Lido had fallen below 22%. 22% is regarded as a critical threshold for entity size, because larger entities represent a centralization and governance risk to the network. We welcome Lido as an aligned actor and we celebrate the robustness of the beacon chain.

Rocket Pool has released Smart Node v1.18.0, featuring key client updates and several Smart Node improvements, including Saturn branch integration and enhanced Docker functionality. This is a low-priority update for Mainnet users but mandatory for Hoodi testnet ahead of its October 28th fork. Node Operators who updated received a POAP.

Ken hosted Langers and a special guest from BTCS to chat about how Ethereum treasury companies are leveraging DeFi. Join the Rocket Pool community calls on Discord at discord.gg/rocketpool, and on X at x.com/rocket_pool